Annie Bynnol

Nobody "...needs...." to use a car. Cars are best for certain types of journey -but not for all. People undertake a range of of journeys types using a range of methods. For some a car journey is the most practical, sensible, convenient and cheapest way to go with no realistic alternative. For others totally impractical. For most there is a choice to be made. Car usage and car ownership should be considered differently. Most families have access to a car but don't "...need..." to use it every day especially when there are alternatives. It is the provision of alternatives and changes in habit that help to reduce car usage.

Third rail is possible but not a solution for the Hope Valley Line. 1 A third rail system needs far more supply points from the national grid along the route. 2 Dedicated fleet of Tri mode Rolling Stock ( 3rail/diesel and OHL)would be required to enable the current routes. The extra weight negates the advantage of lighter pure electric train in carbon use. Switchover between power modes at Dore, Hazel Grove and Marple(future) would be required. 3 3rail is not a solution for heavy freight trains on steep gradients. 4 Using 3rail in three of the wettest and longest tunnels in the UK is a huge problem.

Wherever Tory Rail Minister Merriman goes Tory MPs (threatened with losing their seats) tell everybody that their local railway will be electrified or rebuilt. This Government spends £50 million a week subsidizing private companies to run railways and mothballing mainline electric trains that have no wires to run under, Spending tens of millions on a line to Stocksbridge will not happen. Spending tens of millions on a station at Victoria will not happen. To have a passenger service via Barrow Hill will need tens of millions to build stations and tens of millions on new access to Midland station. Hope Valley electrification would cost hundreds of millions-won't happen. What will happen is a slow extension of electrification north of Leicester to save Government embarrassment of having stuffed underpowered polluting diesel engines into brand new electric trains so that they can get somewhere important like Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Sheffield instead of a field north of Kettering. Doubling Dore was not about Dore or passengers- it is about carrying rocks from the Derbyshire quarries around the country without going through Manchester.

continued... Economists will tell you that we live in a global economy where demand by consumers like us is met by suppliers from all over the world. Why do the Chinese produce so much? Because we want it as cheaply as possible and we don't really care how the energy or raw materials are provided or how polluting the ships, planes railways and vans are.

We were not around for for "snowball earth, tropical rainforests and vegitation at the North Pole etc " These events happened tens and hundreds of millions of years ago and lasted for millions of years. We are in an Ice Age now at a stage called an interglacial period where the ice caps have retreated toward the Poles. These cycle around 50 000-to 100 000 years for the past 20 million years. Modern estimates suggest 70 000 years as the next polar max. Climatologists will point out that it is the rate of change caused by human activity that is the concern.

We are loosing control. Anybody in business in Norway and Switzerland will agree with you that their inability to become full members (because of nationalistic pride) means that major trade decisions with their biggest trading partners are not bilateral but made in Brussels- they can only appeal through minor trade organizations to be considered, We are in a far worse position as we are no longer trusted and refuse to engage in many trade and political negotiations. We even have claims on here that we have 70 new trade deals- we have three, the rest are weakened versions of what we had and most do not involve manufacturing. Asked what effect it has on me-very little. as I can absorb the costs. On my children's opportunities -huge, on those the family firm once employed and the business suppliers -I don't know,

Repeat again The 51 currently stops on the Moor twice MH2 and MF3 it also stops at MH4. For the stations The Moor Peace Gardens etc MH2 is the closest stop, You keep repeating that MH5 as an alternative to MH4, which it is, but irrelevant as it is not an alternative to MH2 for stations The Moor, Pinstone Street, Fargate, Peace Gardens etc,

This is what I wrote earlier today on another thread about :editing. "Currently I am using a 'reading software' to assist with temporary poor vision and a form of dyslexia. It takes time to compose a contribution and I can loose my focus and/or press the wrong key, I have always tried to be correct in my language and grammar and the loss of the 'edit' function is causing embarrassment. Writing in another format and then copying an pasting a corrected version on here should not be necessary." I had a little laugh myself when I read it

That is right, hence the name MF6 Moorfoot/Cumberland Street, handy for the Moor and Market but, as I seem to need to repeat, neither of which are any use for the stations or Pinstone Street, Fargate, High Steet etc which MH2 on the Moor is better placed. PS from MH4/5 to the Moor -there is a dry cut through The Light.

MH4 has been a 51 stop for decades, MH5 is of no use as it even further away from the Moor than MF6. I am lucy that there are alternative bus routes for me that give access to the stations and High Street

An idiot in the Minerva put gravy on my chips and not the pie and proceeded to put watered down 'Worcestershire sauce' on the pie and following day put gravy on my curry and chips -kept going though-loved, Never got used to gravy an

Furnival Gate is a road and Furnival Square is the roundabout. If the Furnival Square roundabout is removed will the 51 bus route(W to E) be re-routed as it has been using the roundabout to do a U turn. for decades.? The current planner shows the bus not stopping at Furnival Gate MH3 which it most certainly does but is stopping at two stops called MH4 which are not accessible from Rockingham Street unless the Furnival Square roundabout is used. With stops on West Street. Rockingham Street and Moorfoot this could ne a real pain for access to the High Street and Stations.

We stay at a Wetherspoon several times a year and enjoy a breakfast when we do- as good as any 'greasy spoon'. The evening meals are OK in an emergency. Their microwaves are no better or worse than other pub food. Having briefly worked for a chain of restaurants as a 'secret shopper' I can honestly say that the bigger the chain the safer the food and that most 'independent' pubs are supplied by a relatively small number of big wholesalers/distributors.

New Brexit jobs! More civil servant to be employed at vast expense to protect our borders from food, further extending the worst food inflation in Europe. Tories have tried to hide this inevitable Brexit cost to food eaters or four years by ignoring it. The wonderful Brexit diet seems to be composed of food that has been in storage for months rather than anything fresh.

Only an April Fool would have us believe that 67 of the 70 deals are new. They are all bar three re-signed deals agreed pre Brexit. The Tory supposed deal with China did no start, Canada, India the USA deals abandoned, the Australia and Canada deals are tweaked existing deals. and only the desperate weakness of the UK and Japanese economies has led to a new deal and causing a drop in UK exports. Limited deals with Israel, Mexico, South Korea, Qatar, Saudi Arabia ,the UAE and Switzerland have been in discussion for years. Congratulation to the Tories on 'new' trade deals with our largest and closest trading partner -the EU + partners- on far more disadvantageous terms. Congratulation to the Tories for finally allowing the public to know about how long the recession they are responsible for has lasted and the dating the decline in the economy to before Covid and the Russian war on Ukraine.